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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century

By John F. Kasson

Book information

Publisher
Hill & Wang
Year
1978
ISBN
9781429952231, 0809001330, 9780809001330
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7235609 bytes)
Pages
120\120
Topic
History\\American Studies
Time added
2021-10-14 19:03:26
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Description

Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgia but as a harbinger of modernity--and the many photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other reproductions with which he amplifies his text support this lively thesis. Title Page Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Also by John F. Kasson NOTES ILLUSTRATION CREDITS Copyright Page

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